Bias and certainty of evidence

Date & Time
Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location Name
Churchill
Session Type
Oral session
Category
Bias
Oral session
Bias and certainty of evidence
Speakers
Preethy D'Souza, EPPI Centre, University College London, United Kingdom
Irene Kwan
Wendy Macdowall, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Helen Burchett
Katy Sutcliffe, EPPI Centre, University College London, United Kingdom
Penny Whiting, University of Bristol
Carole Lunny, Cochrane Hypertension Review Group
Dylan Kneale, EPPI Centre, University College London, United Kingdom
Eve Tomlinson, University of Bristol
Theresa Moore, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol. The National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaboration West (NIHR ARC West) at University Hospita
Tim Barker, HESRI, The University of Adelaide
Description
14:00 Opening remarks and introduction
14:05 Introduction to a new risk of bias tool for network meta-analysis (RoB NMA tool)
14:25 Ten Top Tips for using the Risk of Bias 2 (RoB2) tool
14:35 The revised JBI critical appraisal tool for the assessment of risk of bias for randomized controlled trials
14:45 Risk of bias tools: a systematic review of usability
14:55 Challenges in using RoB2: worked example from a systematic review of remote therapies for alcohol and drug misuse.
15:05 Introducing LATITUDES, a library of assessment tools and instruments used to assess data validity in evidence syntheses
15:15 Is Quality Appraisal Enough? Confidence in Heterogeneous Interventions’ Effectiveness
15:25 Closing remarks